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APRIL 11, 2024

For an update on what the SSPD-1 mission achieved and how it will shape future concepts for space solar-power satellites, IEEE Spectrum spoke with Ali Hajimiri , an IEEE Fellow, professor of electrical engineering at Caltech, and codirector of the school’s space-based solar power project. But yours is at 10 GHz?

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Although the researchers demonstrated this method in a small-scale, highly controlled environment with dimensions of just nanometers (billionths of a meter), they have already come up with concepts for scaling up the method and making it practical for real-world applications.

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MARCH 30, 2014

The engineers said the polymer craft could form the basis of cheap and potentially disposable UAVs that could be built and deployed in remote situations potentially within as little as 24 hours. Using support material adds a direct material cost, and significantly increases build time, in some cases by an order of magnitude.

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JULY 8, 2022

ESA ] Building a 159-kilogram (350-pound) autonomous robot designed to go to very dark and tough places takes a while, even in time lapse. Its structure is 3D printed and easy to repair, and it's supposedly cheap, although I don't know how cheap. Kawasaki ] This video shows uninterrupted operation of ANYmal Bull. RoMeLa ].

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JULY 21, 2021

What we need is something called cozy futurism, a concept I first encountered while reading a blog post by software engineer Jose Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente. Much of the motivation behind building new rockets or developing colonies on Mars is wrapped up in the rhetoric of our warming planet being something to escape from.

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JULY 12, 2013

We can really see the momentum towards dual-fuel operation building now. ME-LGI is a new concept that can be applied to all MAN Diesel & Turbo low-speed engines, either ordered as an original unit or through retrofitting. The engines will run on a blend of 95% methanol and 5% diesel fuel.

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APRIL 18, 2021

One thing that Boring Company critics typically forget is the fact that the LVCC Loop’s tunnels are incredibly cheap and quick to build. The LVCC Loop could also be considered as a proof of concept, and it will be expanded to other areas in Las Vegas. The Boring Company is only getting started.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Toyota EPU (effectively an electric Hilux) Toyota EPU concept is an electric four-door ute Toyota has been glacially slow to the EV market but at the 2023 Tokyo motor show there were signs the message had finally sunk in. Toyota showed off a concept car called the EPU (or electric pick-up) alongside an electric version of the LandCruiser.

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JUNE 28, 2023

While the electric motors give the kind of precise control that we’ve come to expect from electric motors, the pistons are controlled by simple (and cheap) binary valves that can either be on or off. But again, the concept here is to use the pneumatics for explosive actuation and get finer control from the electric motors at the hips.

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

UK Law Requires EV Chargers for All New Buildings. New buildings will be required to include EV charging stations, as will renovated structures that have 10 or more parking spaces. These are good goals, and the concepts shown in the post are pretty fun. Cheap New Method Reuses EV Batteries. TOP EV NEWS.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

Sadoway considers this development a breakthrough, because for the first time in five decades, this type of battery—the advantages of which include cheap, abundant raw materials, very safe operational characteristics, and an ability to go through many charge-discharge cycles without degradation—could finally become practical.

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

Reviver Auto is making the so-called Rplates, and they aren’t cheap—the plates are listed at US $700, plus an $8 a month subscription fee. [ But once these changeable plates are out in the wild, it seems like it’ll be just moments before someone builds an app to shoot them messages like “Back off, tailgater!”—or Not a bad list.

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MARCH 11, 2023

The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars. And with the revival of the EV, the V2G concept was reborn. The experiment seemed to prove the feasibility of the technology.

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JULY 25, 2023

While it’s not clear that turbocharging anything within the segment makes good financial sense for the companies that have to build them, a subset of fans have been demanding forced induction for years. There are cases to be made both for and against the concept that ought to be considered.&

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MAY 2, 2014

In a presentation for the Copper International Conference in Santiago, Chile, in December 2013, Allanore noted the proof of concept for producing copper and sulfur by electrodecomposition of copper sulfide, achieved by T.P. The idea for direct sulfide electrolysis dates to as early as 1906. Hoar and R.G. And electricity allows that.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Build quality’s excellent, and you score LED lights everywhere (boomerang-shaped at rear), leather heated seats, 10.25-inch The Kia Concept EV3 was revealed in October at the brand’s EV Day, and this boxy, miniature EV9-like SUV is a logical replacement for the Soul, likely to debut late in 2024.

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JUNE 14, 2010

Here’s our rough draft, which we’re releasing as we refine the concept—we moved up our plans when we learned about the Tuesday address. And oil only seems cheap. When our country was attacked at Pearl Harbor, no one believed we could build 30,000 planes and tanks in just one year. Its impacts are increasingly unaffordable.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2010

New Tucson 'Digs' at Milagro Cohousing.plus a scenic view of PHEV3A Office Cheers EVADC'rs, PHEV'rs, and EVnthusiastics, One & All - After a six week break of sorts, the "Spirit of DC" and EVJerry are able to do some reporting out with narratives about the team-building EVforts underway. stand by for more info on this concept.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E’s first solicitation, announced earlier this year, was highly competitive and resulted in awarding $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Earlier post.)

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MAY 10, 2023

What we found seemed to be a familiar concept with lots of little improvements that added up to something grander than what’s currently on offer. Normally, when you set out to build a jack of all trades, the end product tends to be kind of middling. But some of the materials used on the test models I previewed felt a little cheap.

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

The prototype is a partial demonstration of a concept that he’s been working on for decades: a neuroprosthetic for smell. In the lab’s back room, another model shows the second half of the concept: There, the e-nose sensor transmits its signal to a small array of electrodes taken from a cochlear implant.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each.

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APRIL 23, 2022

by-9 meter) screens displaying a computer-generated representation of New York Harbor, complete with buildings, piers, movable buoys, changing weather conditions, and other ships to be avoided. Only when the simulator hardware was ready would they build a compiler to translate the database into the appropriate machine language.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term. Every time there is a conversion of energy from one form to another there are efficiency losses – a concept known as ‘energy vector transition’. 2011,p66) [3] and Tesla’s Elon Musk has called the concept of hydrogen FCEVs as “incredibly dumb” [5].

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OCTOBER 2, 2022

At the end of Tesla’s 2021 AI Day last August, Elon Musk introduced a concept for “Tesla Bot,” an electromechanically-actuated, autonomous bipedal “general purpose” humanoid robot. I think that it won’t look all that much like the concept images in this presentation. I think that it’ll be able to stand up, and perhaps walk.

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JUNE 24, 2023

More bZ models have also been promised, with two concepts at the Shanghai show previewing vehicles that will go on-sale in China in 2024. Some of the 30 new Toyota bZ battery electric vehicles due to go into production by 2030 Toyota has shown several electric ute concepts recently.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Audi A6 e-Tron – concept car points to sleek large luxury sedan powered only by electricity. Think again… Audi A9 e-Tron – the A8 limousine is headed to the car grave and in its place is a new all-electric (and partially autonomous) grand tourer showcased as the Grandsphere concept. Soon, apparently. Arriving 2022.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In the summer of 1956, a group of mathematicians and computer scientists took over the top floor of the building that housed the math department of Dartmouth College. To this very day, Lenat and his team continue to add terms (facts and concepts) to Cyc's ontology and explain the relationships between them via rules. million rules.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

SOURCE: GARTNER Fortunately, we have access to an information storage technology that is cheap, readily available, and stable at room temperature for millennia: DNA , the material of genes. Storing information in DNA is not a complicated concept. But current practices are building fragility into the storage ecosystem.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

The upside is that a lot of work is being put into making these new satellite constellations more secure , even though it will likely take a lot of rethinking about how to design and build the thousands upon thousands of satellites that make up these growing networks. 5G Networks are Performing Worse. What’s Going On?

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JULY 10, 2012

The four students from the University of Leeds’ Faculty of Engineering developed an initial concept of the UAV, created the design and performed an aerodynamic analysis under the supervision of EADS expert Martin Muir. Due to the tests performed, both the angle of incidence and the angle of twist could be optimized.

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DECEMBER 31, 2022

The First High-Yield, Sub-Penny Plastic Processors I’ve been listening to promises of cheap, flexible electronics my whole career. Single-Chip Processors Have Reached Their Limits Coffins require a number of nails, but this year two more were driven in to the one bearing the concept of the PC or server CPU made from a single piece of silicon.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

We're now building the. The group took as its founding principle that the challenges involved in building a crewed spacecraft on the cheap are all engineering problems that can be solved, one at a time, by a diligent team of smart and dedicated people. Even more important, it came back down in one piece. km to the east.

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MAY 16, 2014

Many researchers are now challenging this classical definition with concepts of recyclable networks, reworkable encapsulants, reversible gels, self-healing polymeric coatings, and stimuli-responsive polymeric structures.

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MARCH 7, 2011

While cellulosic biomass like corn stover and switchgrass is abundant and cheap, it is much more difficult to utilize than corn and sugar cane. This work was on Liao’s earlier work at UCLA in building a synthetic pathway for isobutanol production.

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APRIL 7, 2022

Adjusted for inflation, they cost about US $8,000 and weren’t even a thousandth as fast as a cheap gaming computer today. So I pitched the concept to the Human Sensory Feedback Group of the U.S. The best PCs on the market back then used Intel 486 processors running at 33 megahertz. The other option was to invest $60,000 in a.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

For stick-on displays , smart bandages , and cheap flexible plastic sensors to really take off, they'll need some way of storing data for the long-term that can be built on plastic. "In That building the device on plastic would actually improve things wasn't something the team had planned.

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